Synonyms:
hum, humming
Meaning: a humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic"
Synonyms:
humming
Meaning: the act of singing with closed lips
Usage examples
My young mistress was sitting easily with a loose rein, humming a little song.
Sarka raced back to the room of the Master Beryl as a strident humming came through to him.
Maximov, hearing that Grushenka wanted to dance, squealed with delight, and ran skipping about in front of her, humming:
Now was I where was heard the reverberation Of water falling into the next round, Like to that humming which the beehives make,
As he went on, concentrating on becoming a goldfish in the bowl on the table, he became aware of a humming sensation in his head.
He came strolling down the gravel-walk, humming a sad song, till he reached a stone seat right under the tree where the parrot and the monkey were hiding.
His mother came up humming from the beach, with wooden pans which she had scoured; she saw the boy sitting with his legs crossed under him on the grass, crying, and she went up to him.
For my own part, I am but just set up in the business, so know little about it--but, in my opinion, to write a book is for all the world like humming a song--be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
A continent would be sometimes dry, sometimes covered with ocean; the stars we now call fixed would be moving visibly before our eyes; the earth would be humming on its axis like a top, and the whole of human history might seem as fleeting as a cloud of breath on a mirror.